60 TrRDIDJE. 



Sylvia (Phyllopueuste) moiitana (Brelim), Xaiim. Viig. Deutschl. 



' xiii. p. 417, pi. 309. fig. 4 (1860). 

 Phvlloscopus bonellii {Vieil!.), Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 418 ; Irby, B. 



Gibr. p. 89 (1875); Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xlviii. (1876) ; Seebohm, 



Ibis, 1877, p. 94. 



Spring plumage. General colour of the upper parts huffish hrowu, 

 sufl'used with yellow on the rump and upper tail-coverts. An indis- 

 tinct pale greyish-white eye-stripe extends from the base of the hill 

 as far as the crown ; the feathers before the eye and behind the eye 

 as far as the crown brown ; lesser wing-coverts buihsh brown, suf- 

 fused with yellow ; greater and median wing-coverts huffish brown 

 with paler edges ; quills brown, narrowly tipped with greyish white ; 

 the outside webs edged with greenish yellow and emarginated as far 

 as the fifth ; the margins to the innermost secondaries are broader 

 and paler ; tail-feathers brown, the outside webs edged with yel- 

 lowish green, and the inside webs with a narrow greyish -white 

 margin. General colour of the underparts pure white, suffused 

 with huffish yellow on the chin and throat, and with pale yellow on 

 the breast and flanks ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and thighs 

 yellow ; imier margin of quills greyish white. Eill Phylloscopine ; 

 upper mandible dark brown, under mandible pale brown, darker at 

 the tip. Legs, feet, and claws light brown. Third and fourth pri- 

 maries longest ; second primary sometimes intermediate in length 

 between the fifth and sixth, sometimes between the sixth and 

 seventh ; exposed part of the bastard primary measnres O-o to 0-6 

 inch. Length of wing, male 2'75 to 2-55 inches, female 2-5 to 

 2-3 ; length of tail, male 2-2 to 2-(j5, female 2-0 to 1-8 ; length 

 of culmen 0-40 to 0-48. 



Summer plumage. Some of the yellow on the rump, and frcpicntly 

 all the yeUow on the upper tail-coverts, is lost by abrasion, the pale 

 tips to the quills generally disappear, and the pale edges to the inner- 

 most secondaries become narrower. 



Autumn plumage unknown. 



Bonelli's Willow-^Varbler breeds on both shores of the Medi- 

 terranean, extending northwards into Northern France, and east- 

 wards into Palestine ; winters in Senegal, the oases of Xorth Africa, 

 and Nubia. 



16. Phylloscopus rufus. 



PhvUoscopus rufus (Bechst.) *. 



Yellow Wren, vai-. D, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 514 (1783). 



* I cannot see the slightest advantage to be gained by rejecting Bechstein's 

 name for the CLiffcliaff on the ground that Boddaert's Si/lvia riifa may be the 



